/groan. Well, guess it could be a standard aliens attack thing, or a 'The Last StarFighter' angle. Either way, it's interesting in who they think the target market is. A game released in 78? hmm... (though if it was an interesting introverted self analysis of one of the invaders in the middle of the incoming wave, seeing his friends slowly picked off along the edges, hating something below him that he only see's briefly as it jumps out from the protective shielding to launch a few shots, and voiced by a Woody Allen sound a like?)﻿

(sigh) And Hollywood complains that boxoffice receipts suck--- there's 500 more original, complete scripts and ideas within 10 blocks of their offices. Felicia, you (and other online producers) are the last, best hope for original creation in the entertainment industry.﻿

Whenever I see a film adaptation of some odd property like a video game or board game, I remember the movie version of "Clue", and how much I loved it, and there's a tiny bit of hope that maybe it doesn't have to be terrible.﻿

Please, Ms Day. Green is the obvious choice. I know, I know, everyone thinks "Wait, Felicia Day, shouldn't she be playing the RED alien?" and then they realize that you have to challenge yourself and they immediately settle on green.

No, to really go for the gold, you have to be the blue alien. Or one of the bunkers. Try doing that in a manner both feminist and NOT pomo.﻿

Ah, I was hoping instead we'd see the Labeouf riding a space ostrich knocking off enemies with his jousting lance. And then at the end Samuel Jackson makes a cameo to introduce Shia to his newest teammate, Qbert.﻿

So, we'll get a generic alien invasion film called 'Space Invaders'. The only possible clever gimmick I see coming out of this is that Earth gets attacked by a coalition of various alien races, rather than a single species.﻿

Wow, and you know even without a plot to screw up I'm sure Hollywood will still mess this up. Funny how they have complete disdain for the games industry and gamers, yet they love to make movies out of them.﻿

Have to admit though, its a fun image :-) I can already hear the announcer with that deep resonating voice .... "The #1 Action movie in America .... SPACE INVADERS....<dramatic music montage of explosions in the background>﻿

Excellent! I've always felt the doomed romance between one of the spade-headed aliens and gunner #2 needed to be explored further, despite the callous way it was portrayed in certain underground slash fiction stories.﻿

There will be the old Space invader who farts and pisses his pants, and the two young black stereotype Space invaders who dont know how to read good, and then there will the John Wayne Space Invader who will turn up just in the nick of time and kill everything﻿

How do you adapt a video game going back and forth and shooting invaders into a movie? I mean I can see the potential for a story line, but then it's not really Space Invaders unless the ship used in the movie can only move left and right and the aliens march in a straight formation from left to right and slowly towards the ship...﻿

Act 1: We meet our protagonist, Joe Six-Pack, who has a wife and 2.3 children and works a dead-end job. Space invaders show up and destroy a bunch of famous monuments. In the ensuing chaos, the wife is killed and the dad vows revenge on the invaders.

Act 2: For some reason, this average joe with no particular skills ends up being one of the key players in the war against the space invaders. He develops a friendly rivalry (with just a hint of homoerotic subtext) with a hot-shot tank gunner who has developed a risky but effective technique of firing through his own shield. In between training montages, Joe has some sentimental scenes with his kids.

Act 3: Finally, it's time for the climactic battle. Joe is assigned to drive a tank with the hot-shot gunner manning the turret. They manage to take out most of the invaders, but there's a mothership that's just too fast for the hot-shot to hit. Tragedy strikes when the tank is hit by the space invaders' lasers, killing the hot-shot. After shedding a single tear, Joe takes over his friend's turret and destroys the mothership by shooting at where it's going to be rather than where it is. Then he hugs his kids. The end.

All you need is a hostile alien force, ground based laser cannons, and a team of marines dedicated to killing every last wave of alien invaders, and Megan Fox to be a love interest for the unit commander.﻿

hollywood would likely take liberties with the story, ruining the genre. no 8-bit world? a love interest that wasn't in the original game. where's the alien in row 3, 4th column? you're telling me that these so-called protagonists are the ones actually controlling the defending earth vehicle and not the video gamer? the characters are played by well known actors(which distract from the suspension of disbelief because you see them as the actor & not the character). and then there's the obligatory aa-bb-cc rhyming rap song and dance: "do the space invader! yeah, do the space invader!" /all-said-with-some-joking-sarcasm :)﻿

Somehow it's not the movie itself that frightens me here, it's the knowledge that there will probably be a video game adaptation of the Space Invaders movie. Based off of Hollywood's past I fully expect this to be a sandbox type shooting spree with rpg elements that will give the lead character some form of magical powers for no discernible reason. As to whether any alien space invaders make it into the game you've got about a 50/50 shot.﻿

oh dear... i read a cracked article once about an idea for a space invaders movie. hysterical, but a bad idea. in their defense, though, i don't see any movie adaptation af a simple arcade game with nothing resembling a plot being a good idea...﻿

Those of us that stood in line for hours in the U of I student union waiting to access one of the 50 Space Invaders machines, each with lines 10 deep, will certainly buy a ticket for the movie ... if all of the invaders are green.﻿

"Hey! Hey there, 3rd alien in the second row! What do you think you're doing, moving 5 feet to the front? KEEP TO YOUR ROW! You're only allowed to move side to side and top to bottom!""But, sir, if we move to the front their enemy guns won't hit us! They're all nicely arranged in a bidimensional plane in the Z vector, so...""Oh, a smartypants, are we? That's it! You're going BACK to our planet! Leave the invasion to those who can actually follow orders!"﻿

The correct way to do it: The Guild do an Ender's Game invasion by accident, piloting in the Space Invaders and blowing up human ships. Then they work out what's what, and while some want to continue with the original invasion they decide to pilot them into the alien civilization that tricked them into playing and blow up the control centre in a barely-concealed Death Star climax-style sequence. Then they go for burgers in a triumphant yet still socially awkward end sequence that ends up behind the credits.

We should cut them some slack. This is clearly a fallback from their initial vision to create a movie about Checkers! Once they went on imdb and found out there have already been five movies called Checkers, they had to settle for Space Invaders.﻿

PLEEEEEASE tell me this is a joke. Movie about invaders from space and mankind fighting them off? Overdone, but fine. Using the Space Invaders marque just to try to pull in a few additional viewers due to nostalgic reasons? Lame, even by Hollywood standards.﻿

I consider myself somewhat creative, and an outside-the-box sort of guy...we all do, right? But I simply can't imagine how Space Invaders would...err...lend to becoming a movie, yet still have anything to do with the game. Missile Command, on the other hand...﻿

"Don't eat the Green Ones. THEY'RE NOT RIPE YET!" Anyway, movies like this are based on the idea that licensed properties can generate hundreds of millions of dollars in merchandising. Anyone for a Green Felicia Day Action Figure?﻿

No headdesk No headdesk No headdesk No headdesk !!!I don't know what's worse, bad movies based on games, or bad games based on movies? What's next, Burgertime? I've beaten this topic to DEATH on Gamer's Underground....﻿